Author: Thomson Gale Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning ISBN: 9780787697389 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages :
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F S Index - International draws pertinent business information of companies, industries and products in Canada, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Oceania from the leading business and financial publications. Each issue contains valuable information on corporate acquisitions and mergers, new products, technological developments and social and political factors affecting business around the globe.
Author: National Research Council Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309155800 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 506
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Despite the many benefits of energy, most of which are reflected in energy market prices, the production, distribution, and use of energy causes negative effects. Many of these negative effects are not reflected in energy market prices. When market failures like this occur, there may be a case for government interventions in the form of regulations, taxes, fees, tradable permits, or other instruments that will motivate recognition of these external or hidden costs. The Hidden Costs of Energy defines and evaluates key external costs and benefits that are associated with the production, distribution, and use of energy, but are not reflected in market prices. The damage estimates presented are substantial and reflect damages from air pollution associated with electricity generation, motor vehicle transportation, and heat generation. The book also considers other effects not quantified in dollar amounts, such as damages from climate change, effects of some air pollutants such as mercury, and risks to national security. While not a comprehensive guide to policy, this analysis indicates that major initiatives to further reduce other emissions, improve energy efficiency, or shift to a cleaner electricity generating mix could substantially reduce the damages of external effects. A first step in minimizing the adverse consequences of new energy technologies is to better understand these external effects and damages. The Hidden Costs of Energy will therefore be a vital informational tool for government policy makers, scientists, and economists in even the earliest stages of research and development on energy technologies.
Author: N. Underhill Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137383712 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 156
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Explores current debates around religious extremism as a means to understand and re-think the connections between terrorism, insurgency and state failure. Using case studies of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq, she develops a better understanding of the underlying causes and conditions necessary for terrorism and insurgency to occur.
Author: Hans Born Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134172370 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 422
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This new book illustrates how democracy cannot develop or endure unless military and security forces are under the full control of democratic institutions and all the necessary safeguards, checks and balances are in place. The contributors show how contemporary European states manage the following issue: how does a society, primarily through its legitimate, democratically elected political leaders and their appointed officials, control the military, that same state institution that has been established for its protection and wields the monopoly of legitimate force? Twenty-eight case studies are selected from key countries: the Czech Republic, Germany, Georgia, France, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro, Switzerland and the Ukraine. The key subjects of these cases vary from corruption to military incompetence, disobedience towards civilian superiors, to unauthorized strikes and accidents. The focus is on the relationship between political, civilian and military actors while identifying problems and dangers that can emerge in those relations to the detriment of effective and legitimate democratic control. This is essential reading for students of civil-military relations, democratization, European politics and security studies in general.
Author: Hans Born Publisher: DCAF ISBN: 0415385407 Category : Civil-military relations Languages : en Pages : 413
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This comparative study looks at how democratic control of the military functions in practice in Europe. This is essential reading for students of civil-military relations, democratization, European politics and security studies in general.
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